Adding Tags to Crocheted Items

Adding personalized tags is especially important if you share a craft booth.

Whether you’re giving crocheted items as gifts or selling your handiwork, buyers and gift recipients alike will want to know how to care for their hand-made item. Attaching a small tag is one of the best ways to make sure the right critical information goes along with your hat, scarf, afghan, gloves -- whatever you have created -- wherever they go. The tag also gives you a way of branding your products, including contact information in hopes of making another sale or at least receiving a thank you note.

Things You'll Need

• Tag
• Hole punch
• Scissors
• Leftover yarn or cotton thread
• Crochet hook

Instructions

1. Create your tags; order them custom-made, write a few out by hand or design them yourself in a word-processing program. Information you might want to put on the tag includes care instructions, the type of wool used, any special comments if you’re giving the item as a gift and your website, mailing address or telephone number. You can also use this technique for attaching price tags.

2. Punch a hole in one corner of your tag.

3. Cut a piece of leftover yarn that’s at least three times as long as the tag is wide. If you don’t have any yarn left over, use generic cotton thread or any other yarn you have on-hand.

4. Tie the ends of the yarn together, creating a loop.

5. Poke one side of the loop through the hole in the corner of the tag, and pull the loop halfway through so that it pokes out on either side of the tag.

6. Draw one end of the loop through the other end, and snug the “knot” this makes down against the tag.

7. Use a crochet hook to gently draw the free end of your yarn loop between any two stitches near the edge of the item you’re attaching the tag to.

8. Poke the tag through the free end of the yarn loop, then gently draw the resulting “knot” close to the crocheted fabric. Don’t pull it too tight, because the recipient should be able to slide the tag back through the loop, releasing it from the fabric without bringing a pair of scissors anywhere near your handiwork.